Hi everyone! We are loving life in Japan! It is absolutely gorgeous here and the people are very nice and courteous. We are also picking up a couple Japanese words here or there. Since it's "rainy" season, it rains pretty much rains for a short time every day - though thankfully no typhoons or monsoons to report of yet… We are slowly becoming more familiar with the island. When we aren't filling out paperwork and going to meetings for in-processing, we are...

Hi everyone! We finally arrived in Okinawa late last night after three days straight of traveling. Tuesday we arrived at the airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan early. As boarding time came around, the airline came over the loud speaker and told us that our flight was canceled due to the airplane having a broken engine. Thankfully we were able to get rebooked on another flight later that day to Seattle, where we had to catch the military plane to Japan the next m...